TERRAIN

The TERRAIN lump is used to add sounds, liquid splashes and damaging effects to certain flats. The most common use is to create splashing sounds (such as water, mud, and lava in Heretic and Hexen), but it can also be used to give the player a custom landing sound when dropping onto a particular flat. For instance, if the player lands on a wood flat one may want to hear a heavy 'clunk' sound, and on a metal flat it will instead be a metallic 'clang' sort of sound. Note that those are only landing sounds, not footsteps.

Entries in the TERRAIN lump are created with the Splash and Terrain blocks. The effects of these blocks are then applied to certain flats using the Floor command.

The <unique name> must be unique to all the other terrain blocks, however you may have a splash block with the same name (so splash water and terrain water can co-exist just fine).

splash defines the splash type to take place for this terrain definition, which was previously defined in a splash block.

footclip is a integer value which shows the number of pixels (relative to the height of the player, so scaled sprites need not worry) that will be clipped off things that are placed (or walk onto) the flat which is linked to this terrain definition. See floorclip for more information. The nofloorclippingDeHackEd flag allows you to prevent a thing from being clipped regardless of the terrain it stands on. (Verification needed)

friction is an optional float value with 1.0 being default, larger values are more slippery (ice), and lesser values have more friction, resulting in a "muddy" effect.

The damage* lines are also optional, and have the effect of applying automatic damage to any sector with the specified flat placed on the floor.

DamageType is the type of damage to apply. This correlates directly to damage types defined in DECORATE.

DamageAmount specifies how much the player is damaged each time damage is applied.

DamageTimeMask determines how often damage is applied, based on the current gametic. If none of the current gametic value's bits match the mask, then damage is inflicted. In practice, it is simpler to just assume that using for value a power of two, minus one, will result in damage inflicted every power of two tics. For example, using a damage time mask of 31 results in damage being inflicted every 32 tics. See this forum link for more information.

AllowProtection is a boolean, which allows items granting the IronFeet power or a derivative, such as for example Doom's RadSuit, to protect against the damage.

Note that DamageType Ice will cause IceChunk and IceChunkHead actors to melt and disappear more slowly on this terrain. DamageType Lava or Fire will cause them to melt faster. Furthermore, Lava and Fire are identical: the engine will remap any DamageType Lava to DamageType Fire.

DefaultTerrain block

A defaultterrain block can be defined as a normal terrain block. All floors that are not explicitly tied to a terrain type by the floor command will use the default terrain.

Floor command

Finally we use the floor command to define the actual flats that get the terrain treatment. This is simply:

floor [optional] <flatname> <terrain name>

Where <flatname> is the name of the flat (if a flat is animated it is best to define each frame here) and <terrain name> is the name of the terrain block (defined above) which you want to correspond to <flatname>. The presence of optional tells the engine that the flat is not to be error-logged if it does not exist or is invalid.